global twitter initiatives @followanarchive and @askarchivists
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Presentation about the global Twitter Initiatves @FollowAnArchive and @AskArchives, founded by Charlotte Jensen and Anneke van Waarden-Koets, to promote archives and their collections world wide. The presentation was held in Stuttgart,at the conference 'Archive 1.0', on April 4, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Programm: Offene Archive 2.1 Social media im deutschen Sprachraum und im internationalen Kontext
4. April 2014
Anneke van Waarden-Koets :@FollowAnArchive & @AskArchivists – Events on Twitter to promote archives worldwide.
How did it all began?
Follow A Museum Day, February 1, 2010Great success.
Basic concept of Follow A Museum Day: To focus all (twitter) eyes on museums and their exhibitions.
February 1st = #followamuseum Day
What if…
Wouldn’t it be nice…
@charlotteshj
@ZeeuwsArchiefED(now @Archiefeducatie)
42 votes on the subject #followanarchive
34 votes: Yes, on a weekday
Chido
LuudChristian Wilma
Lotte
Bernadine
MonikaBente
Good respons:
1. Write blogposts2. Do (video) interviews3. Promote on social media4. Make lists of archives on Twitter5. Design QR-code, banner, sticker,
poster6. Make a movie7. Create a Twitter fountain8. Start archiving tool9. Give suggestions about subjects
to tweet about10. Start a Facebook Page
Charlotte Bente
Anneke Poulus
Crew of Follow An Archive in 2010
@HicksShauna: This is the best time ever on Twitter
@BradHeadland: It certainly is, and we've onlyscratched the surface of the GOLD we hold
@BradHeadland: The records we hold tell the story of who we are, where we came from and how we got here
@followanarchive: French #archivists! @pacofernandez came up withtwo twittering Spanish archives.Can you do the same for France?
@Archives_Masala: Les Archives françaises arriventsur Twitter! Bon Follow an Archive Day à tous!
I love how the event put me in touch with archivists world widein compact time. And broadened the awareness of archives!
@AFSCMEArchivist : Archivists are so cool
I didn't know archives had so much to offer!
@PickeringChatto: Amazed at the number of archives/archivists on Twitter - they’re taking over!
@mandahill: My favourite #archives joke for #followanarchive day: Where did Noah keep his bees? In the ark-hives!
ARCHIVES ROCK!
How did #followanarchive Day work out?
Last blogpost about #followanarchive Day 2010:
#askanarchivist day or #askarchivists day 2011Together with several other people we are thinking about the possibility of organizing an #askanarchivist day or #askarchivists day. We think about June 9, when it is International Archives Day. How do you think about this proposition?
Promotion video’s
#askarchivistsDay 2011
@elmissey: Check out our Happy #AskArchivists cake!!That was on Thursday and was tasty!
@haleylynn08: Wow, thank you all so much for responding! I’m so glad I stumbled upon #AskArchivistsI’ve been wanting to ask questions for ages!
@Brooklynology: @AskArchivists: great event yesterday. We love answering reference
questions–one of the most fun parts of our job.
Question: do you own the original of the world famous diary of Anne Frank?@NIODamsterdam: yes and no, we are the curators, not the owner and the original diary of Anne Frank is exhibited in the Anne Frank House.
@gbrannanarchive: So nice to be able to share our
awesome job with the world
How did #askarchivists work out?- Lot of questions were asked about
digitization, digital born archives and preservation of digital records.
- There were very specific questions asked directly to archives and archivists about their collections and how to search and find in the archives and on the web. Also about their most oldest, valuable or precious document or most weird object in their collections.
- A question about the oldest archive in the world, produced during the day various answers about the oldest archival collection or document as well as the oldest archives building whether especialy built for archives or just an old building.
@naagovau: Finding & following archives, libraries & archiving individuals;Building relationships in the name of #askarchivists
Survey: Let´s do it again!
We have also conducted a little survey (which is now closed), and 100 participants from 21 countries answered. The message of the survey is clear, since a large majority was interested in doing #AskArchivists again next year – same day.
http://www.pinterest.com/karentoittoit/loveheritage/
Stadtarchiv Speyer Zeeuws Archief Middelburg
Archives doodles , created by Charlotte Jensen, Bradley Headland and Thomas Wolf, June 2013
International Archives Day 2014
June 10
#WW1archives
World War I in archives
Archival documents, records, newspapers, pictures, drawings, postcards, paintings, etc. about:
• Soldiers• Families and loved ones of soldiers• Battlefields• Refugees• Aid / Support• Governments• Weapons• Mobilisation• Diseases• War cemeteries• History before, during, after, all related to the Great War
Refugees from Belgium in Middelburg, The Nether-lands, cooking their meal, 1914.Zeeuws Archief, KZGW, cat.nr. ZI-P-03695
Stretcher bearers recovering wounded during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, Sept.1916.Photo by E. Brooks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thiepval_Ridge
Diary of Gallipoli: 25th April 1915.https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/first-world-war-centenary
Join #WW1archiveson June 10, 2014